Speak the World: AI and the End of the Language Barrier

Language has long been a barrier technology promised to break but never quite did. Now it's actually happening. From high-precision translation to real-time voice interpretation, language AI is progressing fast enough to enable use cases beyond office productivity: more inclusive access to information, genuine multilingual collaboration, democratic participation across languages. What does it take to build AI that works across spoken language, not just text? How do you preserve nuance, tone, and intent at scale? And when the barrier falls, who benefits the most and why? DeepL CEO and cofounder Jarek Kutylowski on the state of language AI, where it's heading, and what it means for organizations, institutions, and individuals.